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June 28, 2010  
 
 
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Trees is dedicated to improving the environment where 80% of Americans live: our cities, towns, and villages. Together, ACT's national network of members have planted and cared for 15 million trees with help from 10.7 million volunteer hours.
 
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NATIONAL NEWS
Bon Voyage to Jared Liu
(College Park, MD)- Tree Cheers for Jared Liu, our much-respected Director of Programs, who will be departing Alliance for Community Trees at the end of the month. As ACT board VP Ray Tretheway writes of Jared, "How fortunate for ACT to be the recipient of his excellence and dedication in pursuit of our mission."  We will miss Jared and wish him all the very best!

 

   
 


LOCAL STORY
Chicago-area trees to be counted
(Chicago, IL)- Dubbed Chicago's "tree czarina" when she worked for Mayor Richard Daley, certified arborist Edith Makra of the Morton Arboretum is initiating a census of trees in Chicago and its surrounding counties. The last such census in Chicago took place in 1993.

 
     

GREEN JOBS
MillionTreesNYC Manager, New York Restoration Project
(New York, NY)- New York Restoration Project seeks to hire a MillionTreesNYC Manager, who will provide project management assistance in all aspects of implementing NYRP's MillionTreesNYC campaign to plant one million new trees throughout the city's five boroughs over the next decade.

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